To replicate: Open home folder and search for file inside one of hidden folders.
I believe this is intentional. If you're technically knowledgeable enough to know and care about hidden folders, you should be able to use command-line tools to search them.
A possible dublicate of the Bug 383778 - Search doesn't take account hidden folders - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383778 Baloo configuration (Hidden Folders): https://community.kde.org/Baloo/Configuration KDE Forums; additional tools: - [Dolphin] Show hidden files in search result - https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=132673 - Tag files and search tags: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=141100
(In reply to Rog131 from comment #2) > A possible dublicate of the Bug 383778 - Search doesn't take account hidden > folders - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383778 Oops should be: A possible dublicate of the Bug 269367 - There is no way to search in hidden folders now.- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269367
Unfortunately adding hidden folders option into baloo doesn't seem to work, it doesn't index more files. Besides, why should baloo index files in hidden folders (useless for everyday use) and eat memory and cpu? when I search / for .svg I will find files inside /usr and they are not indexed...
About intentional feature removal: Hidden folders are present inside home folder. When I tried to find activation file for draftsight (to fix activation) I had to: - open terminal (here) - google for search command ... 5 minutes later: - type in command - look for file (nothing found) - type again - ok I got it, now let's remember where it is or copy-paste path - type in delete command ... GUI alternative: - ctrl+f, enable search inside hidden option (that's what's lacking) - type in name - wait - type in again - ok I got it, right click -> delete Problem is that you can see files inside dot folders using alt+. shortcut or via menu option. So you can go inside and search one by one and find what you want. Even more, if you go inside one of dot folders you can search within. So you are pretty able to do something bad and accidentally delete or rename files. So if you can do all this things then why you can't search especially, that when you search you more or less know what you want.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 269367 ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 391252 ***